Glove-finger tip and seam protecting device.



R. N. CARSON.

GLOVE FINGER TIP AND SEAM PROTECTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18, 1910.

1,005,51 1 Patented Oct. 10, 1911.

ROBERT N.

CARSON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

GLOVE-FINGER TIP AND SEAlVI PROTECTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1911.

Application filed July 18, 1910. Serial No. 572,441.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT N. CARsoN, citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Glove-Finger Tip and Seam Protecting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a means for protecting the seams of gloves and like articles, made of buckskin or similar material, and it is especially designed to protect the exposed seams of the finger tips, which are liable to be injured by heavy work.

My invention consists of the improved glove finger tip protecting device which I will hereinafter describe and claim and which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the seam and tip protector. Fig. 2 is a cross section one side of the stitched glove finger. Figs. 3, 1 and 5 show a modified form of the tip protector.

In the construction of gloves, mittens and like articles made of buckskin or similar material, it is customary to make the finger front sufiiciently wider than the rear portion so that the seams are carried a little back of the front. These seams, and especially at the ends of the fingers, are subject to a great deal of wear when the gloves are used for heavy work.

It is the object of my present invention to protect these seams, and I effect this protection as follows:

A is the front, and B the back of a glove finger in which my invention is illustrated.

2 is a strip of material of considerable width, and its two edges are stitched through the seam 3, which unites the front and back of the glove finger. The strip thus stitched in is of considerable width, and after it has been stitched in place it will form a roll 1, which normally turns backwardly over the seam on account of the position of the latter and the stitching thereof. This tubular roll thus provides a complete protection for the seam, as no threads are exposed at the front, and any material handled with the gloves tends to force the roll backwardly and maintain it in position to cover and protect the seam.

A particular feature of my invention resides in making the strip 2 of such width and length that it reaches entirely across the front to the finger and forms a false tip or protector, and at the same time the fullness is sufiicient to allow it to roll or flatten over the main seam at a.

Figs. 1 and 2 show the preferred form of the invention, and the main seam 3 is protected by stitches 3 and 3, between which is raised a tube 5.

Figs. 3, 4E and 5 show the tip protector 2 stitched only at 3, covering the seam a and finger front A, but omitting the extra parallel stitch 3.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

1. The combination with a finger of a glove, mitten, or the like, of a protecting piece overlying the tip of the finger having its side edges stitched with the seams con necting the front and back of the finger and being stitched at its transverse portion across the finger front, said protecting piece having a fullness intermediate of the transverse stitching and the tip of the finger sufficient to allow the strip to roll or flatten over the main seam of the finger front to thereby protect the stitching of said seam.

2. In a seam protector, a tip fashioned to conform substantially with the finger front, said tip being stitched along its edges in the seam of the finger and being stitched at its transverse portion across the finger front, the intermediate portion of the strip being fashioned with a fullness sufficient to allow the strip to roll or flatten over the main seam of the finger front to thereby protect the stitching of the seam.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT N. CARSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). C. 

